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TRS says `no' to second SRC

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 10. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has ruled out accepting the second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) to go into the demand for creation of Telangana State.

The TRS president and Union Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, made this clear at the general body meeting of the party here on Friday. He said setting up of the SRC for the purpose of Telangana, would amount to insulting people of the region.

Mr. Rao said the three-and-a-half year movement run by the TRS was a "do or die" battle. It would continue an uncompromising struggle, so much so that the party would even take on the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, and the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, if the Congress betrayed them.

Resignation threat

He said all the TRS Ministers, including himself, would resign the moment the Congress deceived them. But, resignations were the ultimate step.

They would mount pressure on the Centre by being part of the Governments.

The same had been the strategy of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in carrying out the movement demanding Jharkhand State. The JMM president, Shibu Soren, remained a Minister while leading the stir.

Leaders inimical to the cause of Telangana were keen to see that the TRS was out of the Governments. They were trying to vitiate a cordial and conducive atmosphere. He also said the Telangana issue concerned all the UPA partners. The TRS would "demand and command" the Congress to concede the State. Mr. Rao pulled up the TRS Ministers for failing to take up the problems of people. He said he had to follow up from Delhi the drinking water crisis of Warangal town though the party had two MPs and six MLAs in the district.

Directive to Ministers

He asked the TRS Ministers to spend an hour daily in the party office and tour all the Telangana districts regularly to enthuse party workers.

The Union Minister of State for Rural Development, A. Narendra, also spoke.

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